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CVE-2014-6426

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-6426 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Wireshark HIP dissector (versions 1.12.x before 1.12.1). A crafted packet can cause an infinite loop due to improper handling of a NULL tree in the dissect_hip_tlv function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0238 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.8.10-8.el6_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.10.3-12.el7_0
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-6426Moderate

wireshark: HIP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2014-16)

Aug 14, 2014

References

linux.oracle.com / errata/ELSA-2014-1676
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1676.html
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
secunia.com / advisories/60280
secunia.com / advisories/61929
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2014-16.html